sri lanka
I have been visiting Sri Lanka since 1998. It is a beautiful country with many temples and varieties of buildings from its colonial past.
I am also, in the spirit of portraying the romantic ruin, perhaps, drawn to the many neglected colonial style buildings, defaced by shop signs and air conditioning units, with grass sprouting from the eves which are also part of the townscape, together with rows of ugly newer buildings. In painting these I hope to rescue them from the banal, and the tendency to regard them with horror at the ravages with which time and the unsympathetic accretions of commerce and plumbing have defaced the facades
I am also, in the spirit of portraying the romantic ruin, perhaps, drawn to the many neglected colonial style buildings, defaced by shop signs and air conditioning units, with grass sprouting from the eves which are also part of the townscape, together with rows of ugly newer buildings. In painting these I hope to rescue them from the banal, and the tendency to regard them with horror at the ravages with which time and the unsympathetic accretions of commerce and plumbing have defaced the facades
Colombo
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Kandy
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Galle
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Hill Country Series
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Sri Lanka Sketchbook
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